Jackson v. Pioletti

Appellants, being the petitioners below, filed a petition for a common-law writ of certiorari in the circuit court of Woodford county to which the county judge and the clerk of the county court were named as respondents. The petition in its amended form charged that the county court lacked jurisdiction to detach a certain acreage of land from certain school districts, and prayed that upon certification of the county court record, to the circuit court that the order detaching same be reversed.

Neither of the. respondents made any appearance in the circuit court upon this petition, and our…